globalEDGE Newsletter
April 2005
Vol. 4 - Issue 3
The Academy section offers Online Course Modules free for registered users. The interactive tools focus on various areas pertinent to international business. The modules can be used as educational material for classrooms and businesses alike. Topics include Doing Business In, Culture, Exporting, Market Research & Entry, Functions, Legal Aspects, Agricultural Business, and Other. Most modules include cases or anecdotes, a glossary of pertinent terms, quizzes, and references where applicable.
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A sample of some of our recently added sites:
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
http://arbiter.wipo.int/
The WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center is a valuable dispute service provider that WIPO, the World Intellectual Property Organization, offers to interested parties. The site demonstrates how the impartial Center has contributed, and continues to contribute, to the good of mankind by creating real wealth for nations. The site presents information on the two main services the Center provides, arbitration and mediation, as well as press updates. Administering disputes under WIPO procedures can prove helpful across countries and various parties in need of outside assistance.
Listed in the following category: Research: Organizations
USA: The Advocacy Center
http://export.gov/advocacy
The prime responsibility of The Advocacy Center is to promote U.S. exports and help create and retain U.S. jobs by coordinating strong U.S. government support to large, medium-sized, and small companies competing for international opportunities. The government group oversees resources from 19 U.S. government agencies in the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC) to ensure that sales of U.S. goods and services have the best possible prospects overseas. The site provides news articles on the Advocacy Center and their program. Registration is an option on this site, however not mandatory. Registering on the Export.gov community is used to contact members regarding specific trade opportunities, trade events, or export-related information of special interest.
Listed in the following country: United States
Listed in the following category: Research: Government Resources
Center for Transnational Law
http://www.tldb.de/
The Center for Transnational Law offers searchable definitions of principles of transnational commercial law. Searches provide the user with text and comprehensive references, taken from international laws and academic sources, for each principle, concept, or rule entered.
Listed in the following category: Trade: Trade Law
A list of recently added sites to globalEDGE is available at:
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/whatsnew.asp
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Featured Discussion: French Work Week.
A bill has recently been passed in France allowing employees to work longer than the traditional 35-hour work week. Originally implemented by a Socialist government that was trying to decrease unemployment, the rule has created happy, relaxed, and some of the most productive employees in Europe. Unfortunately, the desired effect was…
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In globalEDGE's March 2005 Newsletter under 5) MEDIA UPDATES, the description for the article
titled "Brussels Warns Brown Over Budget Deficit" incorrectly stated that
the UK is not a part of the EU. The sentence should have read that the UK
does not take part in the Euro.
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